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Keyboard shortcuts for animation

The following keyboard shortcuts can help you be more productive when working with animations by providing access to many common functions. These shortcuts work with animation regardless of whether the Animation Timeline pane is open or not.

Keyboard shortcut Action
Ctrl+Right arrow key Move to the next keyframe .
Ctrl+Left arrow key Move to the previous keyframe .
Spacebar Play or pause the steps.
Ctrl+Insert Append a new keyframe to the end of the animation after the last keyframe.
Shift+Insert Update or set a keyframe. If a keyframe exists at the current time, it is updated. Otherwise, a new keyframe is inserted at the current time between two keyframes.
Ctrl+Shift+Delete Delete the current keyframe.